Corregidora

Name: Corregidora
Author: Gayl Jones

by Gayl Jones

Blues singer carries generational trauma and family history of sexual violence across time

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Gayl Jones

Gayl Jones is a Kentucky-born African American novelist whose Corregidora and Eva's Man are harrowing, formally inventive explorations of sexual trauma and Black women's history. Her work was championed by Toni Morrison.

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